My Ember Wishlist for 2018

I have been building ember apps for 5+ years now (Hyperlogs and Application Starter Kit). I still LOVE IT. It is still my favorite framework. It is still productive. It is still fun.

The Ember team asked for blog posts to shape the direction of the framework, so here is a quick wishlist of things I would love to see.

1. Lose Broccoli — this is not a big deal but I would like to use something more “mainstream” and other than Ember, I almost never see Broccoli used anywhere else.
2. Partial Stylesheets — not sure if “partial” is the right word but I would like to have different routes load different stylesheets instead of one massive app-wide stylesheet.
3. Multiple apps — this might be the same thing as Ember engines but I would like to have my ember app be multiple smaller ones. I might have an admin app, a user app and maybe a mobile app. I don’t want one single app for all 3 but at the same time I want to share common functionality between them e.g. authentication, models, services, etc… . It sucks when I have to load the entire app just to display a few views in the mobile version.
4. Better mobile magic — not sure how this would work or what it is but it would be nice if I can easily make my app mobile friendly, maybe have have mobile views/templates e.g. my-page.mobile.hbs which will automatically render when requested on a mobile device but will share the same controller.
5. File structure — I use Pods but damn my pod folder is a mile long. I…